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host: grover norquist, good for the republican party or not? guest: everyone is good for the party and has an agitation towards whatever you are trying to accomplish. when they are not good is when they take the ball and go home. and use it to raise money. that is what john boehner was saying. when all you are doing is trying to be different in order to send out any not last -- to send an email blast to your constituency saying there they go, send me $25. i have seen those letters. i smile when i do. they are not part of any process to fix anything, they are raising a lot of money to pad offices in washington. that is what john boehner was saying. be part of the process to fix things not to raise money. host: jeff, el paso, independent line. caller: good morning. mr. nussle, i am curious. are you still living in iowa or do you live in washington? guest: i live in washington. host: why do you ask? caller: as an independent former republican, not a member of the tea party i found your comment that characterized tea party republicans as antigovern
host: grover norquist, good for the republican party or not? guest: everyone is good for the party and has an agitation towards whatever you are trying to accomplish. when they are not good is when they take the ball and go home. and use it to raise money. that is what john boehner was saying. when all you are doing is trying to be different in order to send out any not last -- to send an email blast to your constituency saying there they go, send me $25. i have seen those letters. i smile when...
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Oct 3, 2013
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even grover norquist said ted cruz has, and i quote, pushed house republican into traffic and wandered away. 18 house republicans have publicly stated they would support a clean c.r. let's end the g.o.p. shutdown. let's bring sanity back to congress and pass a clean c.r. that will put americans back to work and restore funding to the countless programs that they rely on. thank you and i yield back to the gentleman. mr. pocan: you menged that 18 times the senate has tried to find resolution to having a budget in this country. there are a number of us who serve on the budget committee, including someone who will speak in a little bit, representative jeffries, for six months we've been asking for leadership to appoint conferees to we could do that. do you remember when the republicans finally proposed a conference committee. mr. takano: the gentleman has of lp me, i'm not aware this happening. mr. pocan: i believe it was 20 minutes to or quarter to midnight before the government shut down. mr. takano: i do remember this now. because i was here that time of night. i do remember that becaus
even grover norquist said ted cruz has, and i quote, pushed house republican into traffic and wandered away. 18 house republicans have publicly stated they would support a clean c.r. let's end the g.o.p. shutdown. let's bring sanity back to congress and pass a clean c.r. that will put americans back to work and restore funding to the countless programs that they rely on. thank you and i yield back to the gentleman. mr. pocan: you menged that 18 times the senate has tried to find resolution to...
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Feb 13, 2013
02/13
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or as grover norquist says, make it small enough to drown in a bathtub. government is important. the heroes of 9/11 were government workers. government teaches our kids. it protects us. keeps us safe. helps keep our air clean. and protects the less fortunate. the tea party has this wrong. the objectives should not be to destroy government through reactive draconian cuts. rather we should collectively rethink and renew this institution that touches all of our lives. i recognize not everyone i serve with would agree on how to cut defense to make them sustainable over time. that's the whole point. we have to compromise. sadly that's not in vogue these days. my colleague from chicago, congressman bobby rush, said it best when he observed, in congress the view of compromise is that the other guy gives in. it simply can't be that way. until we end the big erk, and bricksmanship, the deadlock that's paralyzed our political process will continue. it is not we can imagine better but can we do better? those words are true today. we have to abandon the doing mas -- dogmas of yesterday to fu
or as grover norquist says, make it small enough to drown in a bathtub. government is important. the heroes of 9/11 were government workers. government teaches our kids. it protects us. keeps us safe. helps keep our air clean. and protects the less fortunate. the tea party has this wrong. the objectives should not be to destroy government through reactive draconian cuts. rather we should collectively rethink and renew this institution that touches all of our lives. i recognize not everyone i...
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Aug 22, 2013
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it was because grover norquist and the others ran it that way and shifted the conversation. that one.are, i love no one talks about the class warfare of the koch brothers or the people at the top. it is some socialistic communist it what ever. these things matter, words matter. thing that needs to be stressed. focus on what is your goal and articulate that over and over again. that, whatff everyone has been talking about with executive orders and how we can get president obama to act on that -- i wanted to start with alvin if you have any thoughts on that. i believe the president has spoken on that. what is happening is congress, that is the problem. president put that sign around his neck, standing beside me, acknowledging that he was a that ifhe acknowledged it was not for the stand we took in 1968, he would not be president today. believe if we get together , i let him know how we feel don't know if anybody did or not, but that is the thing that be to first -- that has to the first step we take. let him know and see what he says and see what his action will be. don't, he
it was because grover norquist and the others ran it that way and shifted the conversation. that one.are, i love no one talks about the class warfare of the koch brothers or the people at the top. it is some socialistic communist it what ever. these things matter, words matter. thing that needs to be stressed. focus on what is your goal and articulate that over and over again. that, whatff everyone has been talking about with executive orders and how we can get president obama to act on that --...
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Aug 17, 2013
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the head of the united farmworkers and grover norquist support this bill. despite what you might be hearing from the congressman in 65% of the people in this district, according to a and 51% of, republicans, want to see a path to citizenship. [applause] those are the facts. those are the facts. that is the evidence. say, bill clinton likes to that is the arithmetic. so why haven't we said that immigration bill to the president's desk? it is stuck in the house. it is in someone's desk drawer, between the post-it notes and the stapler. in the same place where they are hiding the farm bill, the infrastructure bill, and the senate task budget. it's time to tell the republicans in the house of the people of this country want the keys to that desk drawer. [applause] they won representatives coming to the negotiating table to hammer out a compromise the works for the american people. they want representatives that are there for them, not ones who have taken a pledge to uphold a rigid ideology. they want to send people to congress, people like bruce braley, that ha
the head of the united farmworkers and grover norquist support this bill. despite what you might be hearing from the congressman in 65% of the people in this district, according to a and 51% of, republicans, want to see a path to citizenship. [applause] those are the facts. those are the facts. that is the evidence. say, bill clinton likes to that is the arithmetic. so why haven't we said that immigration bill to the president's desk? it is stuck in the house. it is in someone's desk drawer,...